The not-guilty verdict in the Casey Anthony trial is worse than the acquittal of O.J. Simpson in 1995, says former Los Angeles deputy district attorney Marcia Clark in The Daily Beast. Had she been on …

2011 may still be a tough year economically, but the good news is that it has been a bad year for bad guys, says David Rothkopf in NPR. Osama Bin Laden met his end, Ratko Mladic was arrested and Hugo …

Here’s a legal / ethical problem for you: Should a wife — who presumably had no idea that her husband obtained millions of dollars illegally — get to keep a share of that money in a divorce? That was …

Finally, Benedict Carey writes in the New York Times that revenge and the celebration of it don’t make us terrorists, they just make us human. “Revenge is most satisfying when there are strong reasons …

On the other hand, Melody Ayers-Griffiths disagrees with Ellis, saying we needed to get this demon who had “raped our souls,” and that he did not deserve to have his body returned to his family. Usual …

Bob Ellis in The Drum, an Australian site, says the way the United States handled bin Laden’s body was “shabby, secretive and stupid,” and likely to only spur more extremism. The entire episode, Ellis …

The Obama administration’s decision to give Khalid Sheikh Mohammed a military tribunal instead of a civilian trial is shocking, says Dahlia Lithwick in Slate. “We will, all of us, in the long run bear …

Today’s editorial: Lawyers groups want changes in the disciplinary process. That’s an argument that should be as open to the public as the proceedings themselves. It has been more than 30 years since …